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withered_preacher
Bro do you even shoe?
Leather is better to reduce static on carpet (ie office), and if worn in properly offers adequate grip on all but marble. You should have wet leather soles (ie rainy ground) collect grit and dirt from the ground to increase grip. Silky smooth polished new-looking soles are for posers only.
A leather shoe will be more repairable and thus longer lasting than its synthetic counterpart if treated properly. Further, if the leather industry were more ethical and less wasteful (think, chemicals in production, animal welfare etc), it would as was the case for centuries be less negatively impacting on the environment than synthetics.
Synthetics and microplastics are now in your food chain, leather was once a useful byproduct of said food chain.